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LAST  SURVIVING  DAUGHTER  OF  GEN.  CHARLES  COTESWORTH  PINCKNEY. 
ON   HER   EIGHTY  SECOND  BIRTHDAY. 

Changed,  cluinged  our  hopes,  our  dreams,  our  lives  ; 

What  record  of  the  Past  survives 

Tn  the  fierce  whirlwind,  which  has  brought 

Strong  youth  and  feeble  age  to  nought '/ 

Onr  homes  of  beauty  and  of  pride'*' 

Lie  blackened  ruins  far  and  wide  ; 

And  with  swift  steps,  on  every  hand 

Terror  and  death  stalk  through  the  land. 

A  sadden'd  household  :  far  are  we 
From  that  fair  home  beside  the  sea, 
Where  we  were  wont  to  hail  this  time 
Thy  natal  day,  with  tlowcrs  and  rhyme  ! 
The  voice  is  stili,  that  charmed  thine  car 
With  welcome,  each  revolving  year, 
And  dark  those  eyes,  whose  lovely  light 
Long  made  our  home  a  spot  so  bright.t 

And  can  ice  wisii  tiiei;  joy  and  calm 
Whose  hearts  have  equal  n('c<l  of  l>nlm  'f 
Not  e'en  this  day  can  win  a  strain 
Untouched  with  gloom,  unfraugbt  witli  ])ain. 
Oh  1  that  the  great  lienignant  Power 
Would  lift  me  to  some  lofty  tower, 
Some  hill  of  faith  with  summit  clear. 
Above  this  murky  atmosplicrc 

From  wiiencc  I    might  ibe  b'titure  see. 
And  all  the  Idcssings  yet  to  be  : 
^tiofht  sec  upon  our  countrv's  brow 
A  crown,  not  all  oi' thorns,  as  now  : 
ilicht  ijcathcr  up.  as  in  a  wreath, 
Each  noble  deed  which  conqucr'd  Death  : 
And  show  them  in  the  golden  sun 
Of  Per.ce  and  Fume  thai  shall    be  won. 

Right  l»ravely  hast  thou  borne  thy  part  — 
iropc  on — Trust  on — true  patriot  heart. 
Columhia.  S.  <".,  D''r.  IH.'.:;.  E.  I'.  ?^. 

-  The  noble  residences  olGeii.  C  C.  I'inckney  ;uk1  of  -lolin  Rutledgo,  wliirli 
were  destroyed  with  all  their  precious  contents,  in  the  great  fire  of  lS(il. 

I  Mrs.  Holbrook,  grand-daughter  of  .John  Rutledgo  .ind  gre.i(-niece  of  (ion. 
Pinckney,  died  Oetohcr  IWP,. 


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